Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the effects ofviolence in narratives. Papers may examine any aspect of violence,including specific texts and/or critical and cultural frameworks for suchtexts. What sort of cultural and individual capacities for violentevents are articulated in our current cultural moment? How do culturalunderstandings of violence affect understandings of self? How doviolence narratives influence and change notions of gender, sex, family,and reproduction?